It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.